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… Research in the Eloe-Fadrosh group focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated … and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses …

… UDWARY: It’s been a while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we … related to human health or creating vaccines, human gut microbiomes. We don’t do things related to human health. In …

… DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … which are basically molecules that will covalently attach through a more permanent bond with their target. And so, for …

… Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been … our understanding of the impacts of these viruses on microbiome processes is still limited. One key challenge is …

… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global … by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … The Plant Program advances our understanding of plants’ biological and ecological roles to foster …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone. I’ve got a great episode for you … of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … we started increasing our ability. And ultimately we went through a whole lot of different processes with plants and …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … be doing work in this field. So yeah, I thought we’d go through some of some of the background of the science and a … is a chemical compound called geosmin that’s produced by soil bacteria that live all over the place. So that smell of …

… DAN: Welcome back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … between Bill Gerwick’s lab and doing research in Panama through support from the ICBG training program, which stands …

… Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of … effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree … uncultivated Bacteria and Archaea has steadily been widening since 2005. This gap is also reflected in the strongly …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … and synthetic biology. But also the metagenomics and gut microbiome, as I think that it’s like a perfect storm in … by the traditional methods. But more importantly, we hope through enediyne that we will be able to develop much …

… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … a new culture of a new bacteria that you pulled from the soil, maybe it’s, you know, we talked about sponges, go pull … going into human trials or animal trials first, and going through all those trials is, you know, a very long, very …